Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

Hubbard directs a 'photo-shoot' in Curaçao, 1974. Later, he would progress
to making movies in California.
When the Commodore went ashore on photo-shoots, Kathy Cariotaki acted as his driver and
always checked the route the day before. In Kingston, Jamaica, Hubbard decided he wanted to take
some pictures in the slum areas. At his insistence, Kathy had hired an old Pontiac convertible
which was bright red and inevitably attracted attention, much of it overtly hostile. Hubbard, sitting on
the back of the car, seemed oblivious to the atmosphere and continued shooting pictures while a
group of black youths jeered and cat-called at the 'whiteys'. At one point a boy on a bicycle rode up
behind the car and made a loud whooping noise; Hubbard turned round and whooped back so
fiercely that the boy fell off his bicycle. Kathy sensed that the Commodore did not appreciate the
danger, but back on the ship he banged on Mary Sue's door and said, 'Guess what, honey? I
almost caused a riot this afternoon.'
In St Vincent, in the spring of 1975, the ship was prepared to receive a surprise visitor from
Bremerton, Washington - the Commodore's father. Harry Ross Hubbard was eighty-eight years old
and very frail, but determined to make peace with his estranged son. The old gentlemen arrived on
the quayside in a taxi and the Commodore went down the gangway to meet him - the first time
anyone had ever seen him leave the ship to welcome a visitor.
The crew had been ordered to conceal all evidence of Scientology from the Commodore's father,
but he was too old and confused to care about such things. He sat talking with his son for hours
and wandered amiably about the ship evincing very little curiosity about what was going on. With a
plentiful supply of beer and a couple of fishing trips, he was content. When he got back home to
Bremerton, he told Marnie, his sister-in-law, that he had had 'a wonderful trip'.[11] He died a few